New England District

The New England District is in the Northeast region and encompasses Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island.

Our active fleets are in Rockport MA, Duxbury Bay, MA, Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield MA, Cape Cod in Brewster, MA, Cape Cod in Harwichport, MA, and Lake Massapoag in Sharon MA, Lake Massabesic in Manchester, New Hampshire that is growing, Spofford Lake in Spofford, NH, trying to make a go of it and our newest fleet at Pleasant Bay Community Boating in Chatham, MA.

Our District Governor is Ned Jeffries from the Rockport, MA, fleet and the New England District is the home to FSSA Immediate Past Commodore and Web Editor Diane Kampf.

The 2016 NAC is here! Boats are arriving - 14 so far - and as you can see in the picture, the sail measuring team is ready for action! Down by the hoists boats are being measured. The views are just beautiful in Newport - looking forward to great weather and great sailing.

The 2016 Flying Scot North American Championships are just a few weeks away, July 16-21, but don;t worry, there's still time to sign up! There's not a much more beautiful place to sail than Newport, Rhode Island and we are fortunate to be holding our regatta there. We'll have a chalk talk sponsored by North Sails every day after racing and we'll have some great dinners together. There are still some rooms avaialble at reasonable prices at hotels within a few minutes of Sail Newport - look under lodging in the NAC page here.

To sign up for the Women's NAC or Juniors NAC and/or the NAC go to the event page here to get more information and get the pointers to the Registration Sites on Regatta Network. We need at least 5 Women and 5 Junior entries to hold those events so get your entries in for those events ASAP! We have over 30 boats so far for the NAC and are hoping for lots more! If you sign up before July 10 you save a little money and you help us with planning meals and refreshments. Hope to see your name on the Who's coming list!

The Massabesic Yacht Club in Manchester, New Hampshire, hosted their annual Regatta on September 19th and 20th. The regatta was open to Windmills, Lightnings and Flying Scots. The racers were graced with excellent wind speed of 7-12mph and gusts up to 18mph on Saturday. If you are a lake sailor you know wind shifts can be a challenge and on Saturday the shifts were greater than normal. All fleets completed 4 races on Saturday and many finishes had multiple boats coming across the line seconds apart. On Sunday the winds were heavy 14-20mph with gusts up to 30 and (of course) shifty. The Windmills and Lightnings had many capsizes but managed to get one race in before the race committee canceled racing." -- by Scott Cunan, FS 5620, Fleet #196

Massabesic Yacht Club in Manchester, NH, hosted their first New England Districts with 15 boats from 4 New England fleets - Massabesic, Massapoag, Quannapowitt and Rockport. We elected our new District Governor, Ned Jeffries and said thanks to our outgoing Governor Skip Miontello who had senved us well for 6 years in the role.

After a forecast of thunderstorms threatened to put a damper on things, the weather and winds cooperated fully with temps in 70's and south/southeast winds from 6-10 and occasionally higher. We had 5 races, a combination of Olympics and W-L with the last race coming just in time before the deadline of 3:30. We all had a great time. Shore side hospitality was great and we thank Dennis Dobe and crew a great regatta. Roger and Laura Sharp won the event - full results are here.

Here are a few words from Norm and Jane Wainwright, lucky winners of a BRAND NEW Flying Scot in this year's raffle. The boat has been built by Flying Scot, Inc., and has been picked up at the factory. The picture is the winners with Harry in their new boat when they picked it up! Congratulations Norm and Jane!

"I'm about to pick up my new Flying Scot next week, and I would like to express my thanks to the FSSA.

While this is the first Flying Scot I actually own, our family experience with the boat goes way back to our visit to the Flying Scot booth at a boat show in New Jersey many years ago. My wife and I had three young kids in tow, and the simplicity and stability of the boat attracted us. Unfortunately for the sales rep, we also saw a newly designed Freedom 21 and bought one. After a move to Woods Hole, MA, we exchanged the Freedom 21 for restoring an old Cheoy Lee 31 Offshore and sailed it there several years till we decided to move to Charleston SC. I sold the Cheoy Lee, planning to buy another boat in Charleston, once established there. It was at that time I began thinking of the Flying Scot again, and started searching for a used boat within driving distance. I routinely monitored your classified section of the FSSA website for over three years! I renewed my search several months ago and came across the raffle you organized, confidently thinking that the 1/250 odds seemed awfully good - and you know the rest of the story!

I changed my membership with FSSA this morning to a full membership under the new hull #6067! We will get the hull wet for the first time on Owasco Lake in the New York Finger Lakes, then return the boat to Charleston this Fall. I look forward to exploring association with a fleet in one of the locations."